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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






2. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






3. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






4. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






5. A poem that tells a story.






6. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






7. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






8. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






9. The selection of words in a literary work.






10. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






11. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






12. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






13. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






14. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






15. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






16. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






17. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






18. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






19. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






20. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






21. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






22. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






23. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. The organizational form of a literary work.






26. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


27. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






28. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






29. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






30. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






31. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






32. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






33. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






34. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






35. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






36. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






37. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






38. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






39. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






40. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






41. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






42. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






43. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






44. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






45. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






46. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






47. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






48. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






49. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






50. The series of events that make up a story or drama.